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36 results found for '"Michael Edwardes"' in Keywords.
Michael Edwardes interview (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Michael Edwardes on his appointment as the new Chairman of British Leyland, covering his reasons for taking on the daunting job, the prospects for making the company successful, plans for decentralised...
BL toolmakers’ dispute - Roy Fraser on Edwardes (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with British Leyland Cowley shop steward and organiser of an unofficial toolmakers’ strike, Roy Fraser, in which he criticises company chairman Michael Edwardes over his attitude towards...
Leslie Murphy on NEB profits (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
National Enterprise Board (NEB) chairman, Leslie Murphy talks to Peter Murphy about NEB profits despite the financial problems of British Leyland.
British Leyland future (1978)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by Prime Minister James Callaghan to a British Leyland audience on the future of BL under new boss Michael Edwardes and the need to make the firm economically viable after previously injecting massive...
Derek Robinson on British Leyland options (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with British Leyland trade union spokesman Derek Robinson on the options other than staff cuts available to Michael Edwardes, the new BL Chairman to make the company economically viable. Male...
British Leyland staff cuts (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with British Leyland trade union spokesman Derek Robinson on the prospect of new Chairman Sir Michael Edwardes making staff cuts in the company. Male interviewer not identified.
British Leyland staff cuts (1978)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Speech
Rita Carter reports on British Leyland chairman Michael Edwardes’s planned job cuts and the meeting between BL management and the unions over the way the cuts were announced in the press. Includes press...
Future plans for British Leyland (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview on TASS union plan for British Leyland and criticising Chairman Michael Edwardes’ plan; says without public finance the company would collapse with large loss of jobs; effect of British economy...
John Biffen on Edwardes’s call for investment in BL (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, John Biffen comments on Chairman Michael Edwardes’s call for a large investment in British Leyland. He does not altogether support the comments made by Edwardes,...
British Leyland split (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Geoffrey Robinson MP, on company chairman Michael Edwardes’ plans to decentralise British Leyland into separate groups for upmarket and volume cars. Interviewer not identified (poss. Vivian...